Quick hit: More Wordle. 26 August 2008 12:29 pm
Posted by Tracy in : meta, pictures, school, work , add a commentThis one’s based on my del.icio.us tags, and judging by its contents, I think I may need to create a webcomics about food politics and culture. The more I think about it, the more I convince myself that this is an awesome idea. The visuals will be the hard part, but there are some awesome photocomics out there, and hey, maybe I’ll find out for myself whether collage really is the greatest of all the arts. (more…)
Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : events, friends, geekery, good news, meta, news, pictures, travel , 1 comment so farWordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):
Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)
Foto Friday: excuses, excuses, and another specials menu. 13 June 2008 11:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, breakfast, cooking, eating, eggs, eugene, family, food safety, garden, meta, news, not even vegetarian, pictures, restaurants, seasonality, work , add a commentHey everybody! I’m not dead in a ditch! Here’s some quick hints about what I’ve been up to instead of posting here:
In next week’s posts, I’ll actually write captions for all those and (more…)
Monkey Monday: coming up for air edition 2 June 2008 7:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : family, friends, meta, monkeys, restaurants, travel , 1 comment so farHelloooo readers! Sorry about dropping off the face of the intertubes last week; my parents were visiting from out of town until Tuesday, and I ran out of almost-finished entries to post well before that, and then on Thursday I went to a wedding in Texas, from which I am still recuperating. So. Much. Tracy. Kryptonite. I did, however, quite enjoy the Catfish Plantation of “picture-perfect” Waxahachie, Texas — you’d better believe I’m going to hunt down the relevant King of the Hill episode, oh yes indeedy.
In other news, I’ve finally sucked it up and created a Facebook account with which to get/keep in touch with people, especially East Coast and in particular New York City types since, y’know, we’re headed out there in, oh, ABOUT EIGHT FREAKING WEEKS (but no stress or anything, really, it’s just I hear there’s a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, too). So. Facebook. I’m guessing I won’t be too hard to find there, and if nothing else it’ll be yet another way for me to notify folks about new TracyFood posts. (more…)
Monkey Monday: goodbye, red cutting board. 5 May 2008 11:53 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism, cooking, food safety, kitchen gear, meta, monkeys, pictures , add a commentSo this post is late because every time I started writing anything all weekend Monday it turned into paragraphs of whining about how I’m not writing very well lately, and I had this stupid head cold, and blah blah blah blah blah. Turns out I can still write picture captions, though, though, so I’m going to make a lot of image-heavy posts while I hope that words and I come back to an understanding in the not too distant future (like so I can write a bunch of emails before my trip out to New York starting Friday — eep!) Anyway.
The week of pictures begins on a weirdly sad note: last week we discovered big freaky cracks in the red cutting board featured so prominently in many a Flickr picture tagged “tracyfood”:
